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An orphaned youth receives a magical charm which transforms his life and brings him face to face with good and evil in the Kingdom of Good King Maltuch
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9780374302382 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1971), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A young orphan's life is changed when the angel he meets in the forest gives him an amulet that will fulfill every wish.
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Telling the story of an extraordinary friendship, a close friend and translator of the eminent Polish-American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, offers understanding of the moral dimensions of Singer's art and his struggles with loss, age, and fame. UP.
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9780873385060 | Kent State Univ Pr, December 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Telling the story of an extraordinary friendship, a close friend and translator of the eminent Polish-American author, Isaac Bashevis Singer, offers understanding of the moral dimensions of Singer's art and his struggles with loss, age, and fame.
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9788483065280 | Debate Editorial, March 31, 2003, cover price $28.95
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9780374120290 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, November 1, 1992, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Homeless and penniless, David Bendiner, a young Jewish writer, arrives in 1922 Warsaw--his only asset being a certificate entitling him to immigrate to Palestine--and becomes involved with three different women
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9780374529345 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: David Bendiner, a young writer and secularized Jew, has qualified to emigrate from Warsaw to Palestine, but he's broke, and in order to make the journey, he must enter into a fictitious marriage with a prosperous woman eager to get there.
9780140187854 | Penguin USA, January 1, 1999, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Penniless, 18-year-old David Bendier arrives in the big city, Warsaw, in 1922, determined to become a writer.
9780452270923 | Reprint edition (Plume, November 1, 1993), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: David Bendiger, a penniless, aspiring young writer, arrives in Warsaw in 1922, and he explores his romantic passions, his religious past, and his literary future.
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9781931082617 | Library of America, July 8, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of fifty-four short stories, including 'Gimpel the Fool,' 'Yentl the Yeshiva Boy,' and 'The Mirror.
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Product Description: The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981. They include supernatural tales, slices of life from Warsaw and the shtetls of Eastern Europe, and stories of the Jews displaced from that world to the New World, from the East Side of New York to California and Miami...read more
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9780374126315 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, February 1, 1982, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre
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9780374517885, titled "The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1983, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The Noble laureate has selected nearly 150 of his acclaimed stories, from his eight previous collections, offering abundant evidence of his mastery of the genre
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9781439512937, titled "The Collected Stories of Isaac Bashevis Singer" | Reprint edition (Paw Prints, July 10, 2008), cover price $29.00 | About this edition: The forty-seven stories in this collection, selected by Singer himself out of nearly one hundred and fifty, range from the publication of his now-classic first collection, Gimpel the Fool, in 1957, until 1981.
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9781931082631 | Library of America, July 8, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of short stories, including 'Brother Beetle' and 'The Jew from Babylon' along with ten previously unpublished stories.
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In a question-and-answer format, the author and the Nobel Prize-winning Singer discuss Singer's early years as an immigrant and his ideas about his own writing and that of other masters
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9780385179997 | Doubleday, September 1, 1985, cover price $1.98 | About this edition: In a question-and-answer format, the author and the Nobel Prize-winning Singer discuss Singer's early years as an immigrant and his ideas about his own writing and that of other masters
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9780374519940 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1986), cover price $6.95
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9780374516246, titled "A Crown of Feathers" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1981, cover price $28.00
9780449234655 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, February 1, 1978), cover price $2.95
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9780374132170 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1973, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Twenty-four stories depicting life in the United States and pre-war Poland explore the depths and dimensions of truth
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9788426450555 | Lumen Editorial, April 30, 2002, cover price $17.95
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9788426434043 | Lumen Editorial, April 1, 1998, cover price $9.95
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9780613097192 | Bt Bound, October 1, 1999, cover price $17.95
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9780883657980 | Galahad Books, September 1, 1992, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918 are accompanied by thirty-six tales for children including some of his most famous such as 'Zlateh the Goat,' 'Mazel and Shlimazel,' and 'The Fools of Chelm and the Stupid Carp.
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The award-winning author writes of his boyhood in Warsaw, between 1908 and 1918, recounting tales of his family and neighbors and of Warsaw's aroma-laden, crowded Krochmalna Street, where foolishness and thievery mixed with wisdom and wonder
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9780374416966 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, May 1, 1986), cover price $9.99 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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9780606221979 | Demco Media, February 1, 2002, cover price $17.85 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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9780833512574 | Bt Bound, October 1, 1999, cover price $19.60 | About this edition: Nineteen autobiographical stories about the author's childhood in Poland from 1908 to 1918.
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9780374135645, titled "Death of Methuselah" | Ltd sgd edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Themes of envy, betrayal and sexual perversity run through this collection of 20 short stories.
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9780374529109 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 2003, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Themes of envy, betrayal and sexual perversity run through this collection of 20 short stories.
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9780374135638 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Twenty stories from the Nobel Prizewinner, including "Disguised," a transvestite tale of the yeshiva student whose deserted wife finds him dressed as a woman and married to a man, and the title story, which portrays Methuselah at the age of 969 -- "and when you pass your nine hundredth birthday, you are not what you used to be.
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9780140186987 | Reprint edition (Plume, August 1, 1997), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A collection of short stories that deal with Jewish folklore and legend
9780452262157 | Plume, November 1, 1994, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Nobel Prize-winner Singer's 10th collection of short stories demonstrates "the same vigor that he has shown throughout his long career" (New York Times) and reaffirms his place as an extremely popular and enduring author.
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9788496489967 | Celesa, June 30, 2007, cover price $29.95
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9780374320843 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1979, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
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9780374420475 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A Hebrew legend in which a messenger from God sells himself into slavery in order to help a poor scribe.
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9780451166630 | Mti edition (New Amer Library, December 1, 1989), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's holocaust and is living in America with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive
9780374515225 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: A Jewish refugee who escaped Hitler's Holocaust and is living in New York with his second wife faces a dilemma when he discovers that his first wife is still alive
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9788466627078 | Ediciones B, December 5, 2006, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: A survivor of the 1648 slaughter of the Jews in the Ukraine, Jacob now lives as a slave in a Polish village.
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9780374149000 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, June 1, 1969, cover price $6.95
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9780786108084 | Unabridged edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, August 1, 1995), cover price $56.95
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9780374530648 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 3, 2007, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel.
9780374503925 | Reissue edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, April 1, 1988), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Relates the trials and tribulations of the family of Reb Meshulam Moskat, residents of the Jewish quarter in Warsaw, as they struggle through the hardships of the First World War and its aftermath
9780449204665 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, February 1, 1984), cover price $2.95 | About this edition: The vanished way of life of Eastern European Jews in the early part of the twentieth century is the subject of this extraordinary novel.
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Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travellers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.
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9780689707698 | Reprint edition (Atheneum, September 1, 1984), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Two witches, who practice their evil trade on lost travellers, are banished through the wisdom of a student of the holy cabala, and the power of his magic chalk.
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9780374324445 | Farrar Straus & Giroux, October 1, 1973, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.
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9780374424299 | Reprint edition (Farrar Straus & Giroux, September 1, 1988), cover price $4.95 | About this edition: Even though they were poor, the people of Chelm were content with their lives until the Council of Sages made them aware of their problems.
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9780449206959 | Reissue edition (Fawcett Books, October 1, 1989), cover price $4.95
9780374515386, titled "A Friend of Kafka" | Farrar Straus & Giroux, August 1, 1979, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: This book of twenty stories is Isaac Bashevis Singer's fifth collection and contains such classics as "The Cafeteria" and "On the Way to the Poorhouse.
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